However, I am not there yet. I am still struggling to figure out why the right parenthesis is cropped when OpenSource Notifier 3 is used with the iNTELLIdesign skin. The three notifiers shown in the attached picture are the notifier of Big Bento, unmodified OpenSource Notifier 3 used with my Study Notifier skin and OpenSource Notifier 3 adapted to iNTELLIdesign.

PeterK., did you start working on an enlarged version of the notifier?

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Originally Posted by PeterK.

Short question: is the shadow supposed to be only behind the right edge of the notifier?

I don't think it's a rule. It is just that shadows normally appear away from light: the imaginary ceiling light of a computer desktop is top center so the shadows of the notifier, whose default position is bottom right, fall to the right and the bottom.

PeterK., did you start working on an enlarged version of the notifier?

Beng honest I was going to say: I did not know it was my project. But then I realized that it is an OpenSource, hence everyone is invited. I just would not know how we could merge our efforts into one working notifier folder.

..I am not quite happy with it because, again, I cannot set the right edge.

Ariszlo, your issue with the right cutoff is due because what you call "margin" is actually a behavior due to the group's properties;
It is set as a negative number (-xx) because the group has also set relatw="1", which means it will stretch according to the PARENT CONTAINER'S WIDTH. Relatw="0" makes the width stay fixed.
So, when you set it as "-35" it means it will be 35 pixels SMALLER than the parent container's width but enlarge with it if stretched. the negative number increases because it's used in conjunction with a change in "x", so when the cover is shown, the container moves to the left, and shrinks from the right so it doesn't throw the text out of view.

Also consider that any text field can have a width and height set which doesn't affect directly to the text size, that is controlled by "fontsize". The W and H controls the text-box actually.

Peter/Ariszlo:
(personal view here) Besides this Notifier being flagged as "open source", actually most skins / scripts are sort of Open source. The Winamp skin community was always small, and 90% of new achievements were done by experiments among skinners (official documentation and push forward was always little), so it was common practice to "share progress", specially on MAKI files. If you can see the script's source files (.m) on a skin, it means you can use it for your own skin, always giving proper credit for it of course (basically leaving the header intact, or add your participation if any, and re-share the .m source file).
There are exceptions, mainly those skins made involving some money in it (sponsored skins or paid ones, like Komodo, Nitrous Audio and a couple more SC did some time ago).

That only triggers when hovering the taskbar icon (which some people have set to auto-hide), and it's small too.
Actually I was just throwing the idea to give more uses to the Notifier, I had in mind the notifier Dopamine has (see attach). There, the only button which appears on hover is "close" (to discard it), but IMHO a good notifier should offer basic info (Winamp like) + extra options on hover (or "on click", thinking forward to touchscreen displays), like basic playback and volume. Just ideas.. XD

Thanks, PeterK., for the fixes. As for the dots, they were just there to let me see the corners while experimenting. I have already removed them and made a new notif-shadow.png, too. Some final touches and I will upload what I have done so far.

On that day we move all playback buttons plus volume to the notifier the demise of the MAIN PLAYER as the center piece of Winamp will be imminent.

Why would you want to abandon the MAIN PLAYER and soon all connected components for a fully equipped notifier? I have had Rainmeter on my desktop for ages and I could play music just using five buttons and Winamp being hidden in the background. By why should I do this Vic? Winamp's skinning engine makes it so extraordinary among all other players. And you as an old Skinner and designer should be totally aware of this. So let's keep our beloved Winamp and its components on the desktop and let the notifier do for what it is created: notify.

I like your fresh and new ideas, but being honest I would never want Winamp to be shrunk into a 200x100 pixel small notification panel.

I remember having this issue a couple of times before (with my last 2 skins basically..).. I remember tinkering around with singles GUID's (like taken from https://www.guidgenerator.com/online...generator.aspx).. I remember it being an issue of a dirty coding.. I fixed it eventually, but I don't remember how!! LOL...

After the addition of a new context menu option in Quinto, which allows to switch between a dark and light background it should not be that complicated to do the same in this project regarding the standard and high-resolution notification window. We should definitely have a look at this after Quinto's latest version is published. This could be the first step into the - so called - "dpi-awareness" of a skin on high-resolution displays.